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A documentary based on The Last Whale by Chris Pash will feature never before seen footage from the 1970s.
Norman Jorgensen won a Western Australian Young Readers’ Book Award for his novel Jack’s Island.
One thousand copies of the Waarda series for young readers will be distributed to remote Indigenous communities thanks to the support of the Fogarty Foundation and the Indigenous Literacy Project.
Emerging Arts Professional Kiri Falls talks to former journalist and broadcaster Tom Baddeley about writing rhyming verse for children.
Australian Ambassador to the United States Kim C. Beazley (MP) has recorded the audio version of his father’s memoir Father of the House for the Association for the Blind – Guide Dogs WA.
Bawoo Stories author May O’Brien has won the 2009 Deadly Award for Outstanding Achievement in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Education.
Lighthouse Girl by author Dianne Wolfer and illustrator Brian Simmonds has been short listed for a New South Wales Premier’s History Award worth $15,000. It was one of four books to make the short list for the Young People’s History Prize.
Scott-Patrick Mitchell, James Quinton and Emma Rooksby will feature in Shorelines 2, a collection of works by emerging poets to be published by Fremantle Press in 2010.
Miles Franklin Award winner Kim Scott will commence a book tour of Germany in October 2009.
The publisher of Boans for Service by David Hough has exhausted its stocks again. A third reprint is currently under consideration. The first print run sold out in 17 days and the second in less than four weeks. A limited number of bookstores in Perth still have copies for those who are quick! Fremantle Press […]
Emerging Arts Professional Kiri Falls talks to Chris Coughran and Niall Lucy about editing Beautiful Waste: Poems by David McComb.
How long did you know Peter? What was he like to work with as a colleague? I knew Peter from 1968, when I returned to Perth from Oxford, until his death in 2002. I enjoyed many things about Peter, especially his wide reading and his quiet, ironic sense of humour.
Six talented poets made the shortlist for Shorelines 2, a collection of works by emerging poets to be published by Fremantle Press in 2010.
The Last Whale by Chris Pash was one of four books to make the shortlist for the 2009 Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize.
The North American version of In Ecstasy by Kate McCaffrey was nominated for the 2010 American YALSA Quick Picks list for YA Reluctant Readers.
Fremantle Press caught up with poet, Frances Macaulay Forde, one of the contributors to indigo volume 3.
The Elements Art Gallery officially launched their new space in Dalkeith with an exhibition by Lighthouse Girl illustrator Brian Simmonds on 11 July 2009.
Illustrator and Botanist Ellen Hickman was one of just 13 Western Australians to be awarded a Churchill Fellowship last week.
Ex-Fremantle Press and Fremantle Arts Centre employees are continuing to make their mark. Earlier this year the Australian Publishers Association (APA) George Robertson Awards honoured Ian Templeman for more than 30 years outstanding service to the industry. Templeman was responsible for the establishment of Fremantle Arts Centre Press back in 1976.
Western Australian author Kate McCaffrey has won the Australian Family Therapists’ Award for Children’s Literature in the Older Readers Category.
Time travel enthusiasts! Join award-winning West Australian Science Fiction Authors as they discuss the great authors and films that define the theories of time travel and time machines.
Subiaco-based businesses iFish Films and Kitchen Witch generously donated their time and equipment for a short film featuring Emmanuel Mollois.
How did you become interested in becoming an illustrator? I was always interested. For as long as I can remember I’ve been into drawing. My mum enrolled me in art classes when I was five or six, and that was it, really. I did oil painting and went sketching outdoors, that kind of thing. When […]
Botanical artist Ellen Hickman won the Wilderness Society’s Best Picture Book Award for Tuart Dwellers on 5 June 2009.